Example sentences of "[adj] way to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think I can say that during my career most of the things I 've decided ought to be done , I 've got done , but I 've done them in very different ways to other people and sometimes I 've been criticised for not going out and grabbing the headlines . |
| 2 | Each contributed in different ways to the Watkinson counter-reformation that began soon after he took over as Minister of Defence in October 1959 . |
| 3 | At Play In The Fields Of The Lord ( 15 ) Hector Babenco 's lengthy ( over three hours ) but stunningly-wrought ecological tragedy , shot entirely on location in Amazonia , centres on a group of missionaries and a Cheyenne half-breed who set out in different ways to ‘ save ’ a tribe of rain-forest Indians but bring them only death , disease and destruction . |
| 4 | Adapted in their different ways to the dry and cold of the tundra , musk-ox and opposite-leaved saxifrage . |
| 5 | People react in different ways to odours , for example most people would probably describe rural odours or odour from a brewery , perfumery , or fish and chip shop as pleasant , but not all , some would find them unpleasant , pungent even , especially after being subjected to them for any length of time . |
| 6 | Thus the inversion maxima and minima along this central axis may be a reflection of a number of separate basement blocks responding in different ways to the stresses created by the inversion drive mechanism ( a combination of compression and strike-slip movement ) . |
| 7 | Phosphorylcholine headgroups can be attached in a number of different ways to many surfaces , and large improvements in biocompatibility have been observed . |
| 8 | During the first year of life children seem to become aware of objects and to realise that objects behave in quite different ways to themselves and to other people . |
| 9 | Psychological method 's de-activation of women applies in different ways to different groups of women . |
| 10 | What each of us does over a long period of trial and error is to acquire a set of tools with which we are comfortable and which we can apply in different ways to the myriad problems which we need to solve . |
| 11 | Moreover , from such analysis it was clear that in fact companies had responded in a whole range of different ways to the pressures upon them , and indeed that the nature of those pressures varied between industries and between firms . |
| 12 | After an uncertain start they have responded in different ways to demands for a more active vocal part for the congregation . |
| 13 | From 1795 to 1800 he was apprenticed to his uncle Samuel [ q.v. ] , during which time in 1797 he started exhibiting at the Royal Academy , and in the beginnings of his career he was indebted in different ways to both Samuel and his other architect uncle , James [ q.v . ] . |
| 14 | Globalization is the overarching process , linked in different ways to both integration and fragmentation . |
| 15 | If schools respond in different ways to the requirement for guidance , special information and sometimes special effort which attends higher education entry as against guidance for entry into vocational education and training , is this because there are two cultures ? |
| 16 | And please help us today as we go our different ways to work , to school , to nursery . |
| 17 | Freya 's confusion and bewilderment are very apparent in this letter , and she gives a sense of having ‘ fallen into ’ anorexia , in a strikingly different way to Alison ( in the last chapter ) , who has a much more determined , almost deliberate approach . |
| 18 | However this may be , Robinson ( 1955 ) , in common with most subsequent investigators of transfer from verbal pretraining to a perceptual task , made use of a quite different task procedure — a test of recognition memory in which the subject had to respond in one way to stimuli that had been presented in pre-training and in a different way to novel stimuli . |
| 19 | Travel a different way to work , visit a part of your organization you are unfamiliar with , read a different newspaper to your normal one , drink tea instead of coffee , volunteer to do/lead a project team , etc. etc . |
| 20 | Some townsfolk loved their town in a different way to Puritans , valuing stage plays , fun and good fellowship as the cement of the community . |
| 21 | They make challenging comments and behave in a markedly different way to the rest of the children in the class . ’ |
| 22 | Women are likely to experience residential care in a qualitatively different way to men . |
| 23 | A detachment consists of state troops armed in a different way to the regiment itself . |
| 24 | But because parents bring up girls in a different way to boys in most cultures , women experience life quite differently and so bring a uniquely female perspective to many issues of local as well as global importance . |
| 25 | Ah , well then , perhaps I 'm thinking of the word in a different way to you , because pathos to me means tender . |
| 26 | I do n't think they got a true picture , especially not of C1 , because the staff reacted in a helluva different way to when the cameras were n't there . |
| 27 | This book suggests many ways in which we can use video in a different way to viewing television . |
| 28 | Plotters work in an entirely different way to printers , they draw lines between two points rather than creating their output from pre-formed characters or patterns of dots . |
| 29 | Everything gets dirty and they live in a different way to what we do at home , they speak English more like Americans ( even Uncle Steve ) than us . |
| 30 | He wondered if it was because a woman 's mind worked in a different way to a man 's or whether Blanche simply thought too much . |